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Cait And The Devil (2009)

by Annabel Joseph(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Lulu Marketplace

review 1: Umm, this book wasn't that bad - a dom and sub relationship is what these two are experiencing before they were defined. He is naturally dominant and she is naturally submissive. If you were raised away from everything, you would be as naive as Cait, as trusting, as innocent.Yes, there is repeated abuse and rape 3/4 of the way in and I had to skip that part completely but it was used to illustrate Cait's pure heart. It was too difficult to read, even glancingly, the horrible abuse that was reaped upon her. That was going to affect my rating, but the wrap up and her reactions won me over!
review 2: Here's how I feel about this book: WHAT THE MONKEY? How the author of "Comfort Object" - which I consider to be one of the best erotic romances I've ever read - wrot... moree this is a complete and utter mystery to me. Maybe Ms. Joseph was kidnapped and taken by mysterious ninja monks to a monastery high in the glaciers of western China, where she was kept on a diet of bread and water until she wrote a novel. Or possibly there was a lot of booze involved. A lot of booze, and a deadline. Look, I'm a fairly tolerant sort of individual, but my tolerance does not extend to relationships between a sexually experienced man and a woman so childlike and ignorant that she thinks oral sex can get her knocked up. Honestly, that level of ignorance is pitiable; that a man would not only tolerate but sustain it in a woman he claims to love is disgusting. Say it with me, kids: IGNORANCE IS NOT SEXY. I find this particularly bizarre in an author whose BDSM-themed books so completely eroticize consensual - and fully informed - submission. Also, although the book blurb does mention something like "brief non-erotic nonconsensual sex", that's way, way, way not enough warning for what actually happens. So here we go: my service to you is to reveal that there is brief on-stage rape and multiple, repeated offstage gang rapes. Basically, a third of this book is boatloads o' raping. That's surprising and a departure from the general tone of the book, but the only thing that actually OFFENDED me was the concept that all the heroine needed to recover from said gang-raping was the hero's Magic Wang. Look: rape victims are still sexual people. But the idea that the therapeutic application of peen is all it takes to heal the psychic effects of MULTIPLE GANG RAPES is wrongheaded and disturbing to say the least. It also seems bizarrely out of touch with Ms. Joseph's other work. I don't even know what to make of this. I'ma go read the last chapter of Comfort Object again, to purge away the squick. less

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